Universal bottle and jar closure.



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APPLIOATION FILED DEC. 18, 1907.

9 C AA- (manualmnmv INVENTOR Pflwin WlTN ESSES v. E N m T T A WALTER P.KAIN, OF BRIDGETON,

UNITED STATES PATNT OFFICE.

NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-EIGHTH TO WILLIAM W. MORGAN, ONE-EIGHTH TOJOSEPH B. SHARP, AND ONE-FOURTH TO CLAYTON E. WOOD- RUFF, ALL OFBRIDGETON, NEW JERSEY.

UNIVERSAL BOTTLE AND JAR CLOSURE.

Patented July 21, 1908.

Application filed December 18, 1907. Serial No. 406,999.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER P. KAIN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Bridgeton, county of Cumberland, and State of New Jersey,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Universal Bottleand Jar Closures, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in bottle and jarclosures of that particular class in which a metal cap having a liningof packing material, such as cork, is fastened upon or over the mouth ofthe bottle or jar, and has for its object to provide an exceedinglysimple and effective device of this character by means of which a bottlestopper may be applied to and re- \,moved from the vessel without theuse of machinery or special tools, but by simple hand manipulation.

A further object of my invention is to provide a construction of stopperwhereby the cap having been once removed from the receptacle can bereplaced by hand as many times as desired and obtain a seal as perfectas the original.

IVith these ends in view, this invention consists in the details ofconstruction and combination of elements hereinafter set forth and thenspecifically designated by the claims.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this inventionappertains may understand how to make and use the same, I will describeits construction in detail, referring by letter to the accompanyingdrawing forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is alongitudinal section of my improvement applied to a bottle. Fig. 2, aside elevation thereof, and Fig. 3, a plan view thereof.

In carrying out my invention as here embodied, A represents a diskportion having an annular corrugated depending flange B, the lower edgeof which is necked in as indicated at B so as to engage the usualincline shoulder E on the external surface of the mouth of the bottle,thus forming an inverted cup in which is placed a concave convexcompression disk 0 having a conical indentation O formed in the centerthereof for engaging with a like indentation A formed in the center ofthe disk A. After the compression disk is placed within the inverted cupa disk D of cork or other packing material is also placed therein. Bymeans of the conical indentations the cup proper is allowed to freelymove when in position on the bottle or jar without disturbing thecontact of the packing material, and to also adapt itself to anyirregularities of the lip or mouth of the vessel.

The merit of the construction herein described resides in the fact thatthe closures may be placed on a bottle or jar without the use of amachine, thus they can be used to advantage on druggists prescri tionbottles, and by using rubber as the packing material they may be used onacids, or paraflined blotter paper on salts and baby foods, and when thecap has been removed and only part of the contents used from the bottlethe cap may be replaced and form as tight a seal as when first placedupon the bottle, due to the continuous spring action exerted by thecompression disk.

While I have shown the closure as being corrugated in order that acertain amount of spring action may be given to its flange to springover the head upon the mouth of the bottle and adapt itself to anyvariation in diameter of lip, it is obvious that these corrugations maybe omitted, the closure being made of such material as will spring oversaid head, by first engaging one side of closure and pressing other sidein place with fin er.

Ilaving thus fully described my invention, What I claim as new anduseful is A bottle or jar closure comprising a disk having an annularcorrugated depending flange, the lower portion of which is necked in,said disk having a conical indentation formed therein, a compressiondisk having a conical indentation formed therein for engagement with thefirst named depression, and a packing material, as and for the pur poseset forth.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto afixed my signature in thepresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

WALTER P. KAIN.

Witnesses:

DAVID M. BOWEN, J. H. PUTNAM.

